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SLIDING DOOR HANGER. APPLICATION FILED JULY 221N18- 1,325,123. Patehted Dec. 16, 1919.

\ If, Sim/12 aftqrnu s imrrnn rva w s JULIUS C. STBGM, OF SILVERTON, OREGON.

SLIDING-DOOR HANGER.

Application filed July 22, 1918. Serial No. 246,064..

To all whom 2'25 may concern:

Be it known that 1, Jones C. Srnoar, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Silverton, in the county of Marion, State of Oregon, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sliding-Door Hangers; and I do he -eby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to a sliding door guide attachment and more particularly to the class of keeper devices for sliding door hangers, used especially upon doors of the edgewise movable t pe, yet the device may be employed on railway car doors or other like door structures.

The. primary object of the invention is, the provision of a device of this character, wherein the sliding door hanger carries a guide roller engaged by a keeper so as to prevent the track roller of the hanger from jumping or moving off of the track when the door is being moved, and at the same time permit the door to be easily moved and free from wabbling action or vibrations incident to the travel of the door.

Another object of the invention is, the

provision of a device of this character,

wherein the keeper is suppored under ten- S1011 so as to maintain it in proper relat1on to the gulde rollers or hangers forthe sliding door the keeper and the mounting thereof being novel in form and will prevent looseness or vibratory movements of the door at its bottom'or when being opened or closed. I

A further object of the i vention is, the provision of a device of this character, which is simple in construction, reliable and eiiicieut in its operation, and inexpensive to manufacture and install.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in the features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing and pointed out in the claims hereunto appended.

In the acopmpanying drawing:

Figure 1, isa side elevation of a door showing the device supported in accordance with the invention, as applied to a barn.

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary vertical transverse sectional view taken through one of the hangers of the door.

. Fig. 3, is a sectional view on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 1, is an edge view of the door with the hanger and supported by the track. Fig. 5, is a plan view of the keeper rod. Similarreference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views in the drawing.

Referring to the drawing in detail, A, designates generally the door which is of the edgewise movable type having uitable bracket 10 attached to its upper end, each bracket being in the form of a hook shaped hanger having journaled therein a track roll r 11, the brackets 10 being vertically disposed and in spaced relation to each other and the track rollers 11 are engaged with and adapted to travel upon a track secured to the outside of a barn or other structure].

Theitrack comprises a plurality of platelike sections 12 having notched meeting ends 18 which are arran ed in over lapped relation to each other tororm a smooth joint between the sections 12, which are disposed in,

vertical edgewise'relation and are secured in any suitable manner to brackets 14; spac ingthe track outwardly from theoutside of the barn or other structure, the brackets being preferably of U-shape having feet 15 secured to the barn or other structure above the doorway adapted to be opened and closed by the door A on movement thereof.

lliounted near the ends of the track are uprights or standards 16 formed with the lower forks 17 which straddle the track and are secured thereto in any suitable manner for fixing the standards in vertical position.

Supported by the standards 16 above the track for vertical movement is a keeper comprising a rod 18 disposed parallel with the track and formed with terminal eyes 19 which engage upon the standard 16 and loosely embrace the same.

In each hanger 10 above the track roller 11 is journaled a guide roller 20 against which plays the keeper rod 18 and surrounding the standard 16 are coiled expansion springs 21 which work against the terminal eyes 19 of said rod 18 and also against adjusting nuts 22 carried on the upper ends of the standards 16 so that the tension of the springs 21 can be varied on adjusting the nuts 2:2 upon the said standards 16 and thereby increasing or decreasing the pres sure of the keeper rod 18 upon the guiderollers 20 in the hangers 10 movably supporting the door.

It will be apparent that by the use of the keeper rod 18 which is vertically movable and under tension by the springs '21 to play upon the guide rollers 20, in the hangers 10, on the door A, the track rollers 11 vvill be prevented from jumping oil or running from the track constituted by the sections 12, yet the said door is freely movable edgewise for the opening and closing of the doorway in the barn, or other structure. The device will serve to prevent looseness or vibratory movement of the door and sustain the track rollers 11 in proper Working relation to the track and thereby successfully support the door for movement in. suspended relation to the track by tl e hangers.

It is of course to be understood that changes, variations and modification Will be made in the invention such as come properlyivithin the scope of the appended claims, without departing from the spirit of the invention or sacrificing any of its advantages. The device in the embodiment thereof hereinbefore set forth generally improves the mounting of the hangers of a. sliding door and overcomes the source of serious inconvenience ordinarily incident to the Working of the door and in the movements thereof.

lVhat is claimed is:

1. The combination with a track, and a door; of a pair of hangers carried by the door, rollers carried by the hangers and traveling upon the track, additional rollers carried by the hangers above the track, a keeper parallel with the track and overlying said additional rollers, and spring supports beyond both limits of movement of the door arranged to urge said keeper, and therewith the hangers with their rollers toward the track.

2. The combination With a track and a door of hangers connected to the door, rollers carried by the hangers engaged upon the track, guide rollers carried by the hangers tree from the track, a keeper parallel with the track engaged upon the guide rollers and having terminal eyes, uprights with Which the keeper is engaged through the medium of its eyes and springs carried by tle uprights upon the'keeper and having means for tensionin-g them in the direction of the track to correspondingly urge the keeper.

The combination with a track and a movable door, of hangers carried by the door, track rollers journaled in the hangers and movable over the track, guide rollers journaled in the hangers above the track rollers, a keeper supported above the track and engaged by the guide rollers, vertical uprights with which said keeper is slidably engaged, and tension means on the uprights and workingagainst the keeper to vertically tension the same.

In testimony whereof I aiiiX my signa ture in the presence of two Witnesses.

JULIUS C. STROh h Witnesses CYRUs O. Morin, P. M. GANN. 

